Will be posting progress of me climbing the SC2 HOTS ladder >:]

Some bronzies don't stand a chance, and some I cant even touch. From what I've seen though, it's the high ranked WOL players getting bronze rank in HOTS placements, so they can stomp my face in the dirt (multiple gold/plat finishes but in bronze for some reason, on HOTS)

had a few good wins so far. my natural got cannon rushed without me noticing until my hatchery was under fire, which was a huge mistake on my part, but recovered and managed to stomp him^^

here's my stats at the moment. hoping to be silver sooner than later :/ and aiming for, at the least, top 10 rank silver at the end of the ladder season. Hoping for gold though >:]





What I think I need to work on:

- my unit composition (knowing what to make against protoss units and making more use of banelings/corrupters/infestors)

- macro (larva injection, and some games I just dont make enough drones to support my army/reinforcements)

- micro (I find myself vulnerable to drops more often than I'd like) to counter this I've been making 2-3 queens per base , with an anti-air tower or two with an upgraded overlord for detectionan

Anyways that's enough for my wall of text. let the games begin.

Wish me luck bois!

first things first, 15 hatch 15-16 pool. 14 hatch 14 pool is wrong.

eheheh still haven't really done any build order research. 14/14s been workin for me so far >:] I shall correct that and try out 15/15 though thanks

This post was edited by 14hatch14poolgo on Nov 11 2013 09:02pm

what you think you need to work on is only 33% correct

your micro and unit composition takes the backseat to mechanics always, and you can carry yourself to diamond with just speedlings, static defense, and queens.

open up some custom games and just work on an opening build order for zvz, zvt, and zvp, and then just practice droning, overlord timings, creep spread, and hitting your injects.

once you can drone up to 3 base without supply blocking yourself and feel comfortable with a method of injecting, start considering overlord placement for scouting purposes (drop paths, spotting gas, expansions) and being active with 2-4 lings around the map scouting watch towers and proxy pylon spots.

if you can get creep spread beyond your natural choke and connecting with your third by 8:30, that's always a plus.

Gl mek drone

I usually go muta/ling asap vs protoss, roach/hydra/muta vs terran and muta/ling vs zerg, but yea macro def makes or breaks a game before anything else, my last game was pretty epic, thought I had the terran contained in his main/natural expansion, but he had a secret 3rd out in the corner of the map (my bad) and came at me with 10-15 battle cruisers and a bunch of ravens exploding all my mutas, but luckily by that time I had like 10k minerals and 200 supply and had time to makean assload of hydras before he could get to my base with his slow ass battle cruisers >:) thought he had me for a bit there, his bad micro lost him the game though, with 3-4 BCs left my queen sniped out 2 with low hp, then hydras from my far off bases slowly made it over ( creep spread woulda helped a ton for sure -.-)

back to the top 8 rank O_O 4 - 2 so far




avg unspent resources from last game (me being bottom) guess I should've used them on upgrades -.-; was only +2 ranged and +1 flyer attack -.-



This post was edited by 14hatch14poolgo on Nov 12 2013 11:37am

lost one finally -.- byebye winning streak. was facerolled by a bunch of banshees and antiair flyers (forget what theyre called) fairly early into the game.

then won 2, for #3 rank^^




This post was edited by 14hatch14poolgo on Nov 12 2013 02:29pm

7 - 4 now 1-2 more wins for #1 spot i think >:]
I'm either super outmatched, or theyre super outmatched, only had like 1 or 2 close and epic games :/ guess it's because I belong in silver league

Lol bronze, I bought the game with no rts experience 3 years ago and got placed in platinum like a boss

And then got demoted 2 leagues and have since stayed in that league